Day one. Every Trump cabinet official will learn how the Obama administration has made racial resentment the major focus of everything they do. And they have been doing that daily for eight years. Job one: The Trump brigade will have to d...
January 19, 2017
Trump and Obama's Legacy of Racism
Day
one. Every Trump cabinet official will learn how the Obama administration has
made racial resentment the major focus of everything they do.
And
they have been doing that daily for eight years.
Job
one: The Trump brigade will have to decide whether to ignore it, pretend it is
good, or rip it out by the roots.
Not
one future cabinet member, or their boss at Trump Tower, has indicated they are
aware of how widespread this is. How much damage it has done. Or their attitude
towards it.
Let’s
look at a few examples, starting with the easiest, the Department of Justice.
For eight years, the two attorneys general have crusaded to let the world
know there are too many black people in prison for no reason what so ever
-- other than white racism.
Too
many arrested. Too many prosecuted. Too many convicted. Too many sent away for
too long. And once let out, too many return too soon.
They
call it Criminal Justice Reform -- and it is all about white racism and racist
police. From the president on down, they say the only reason more black
people are arrested than white people is that racist white police pick on black
people in black neighborhoods.
And if
they pulled the cops out of black neighborhoods and put them in white hoods,
the crime numbers would flip and white people would be arrested wildly out of
proportion.
This
is not something they whisper to each other behind closed doors. Rather, they
say it proudly, loudly, and often in public -- easily documented in that
scintillating best seller, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry: The Hoax
of Black Victimization.
Ready
for more fairy tales? How about the Department of Education? Soon after taking
office, the Obama people figured out that any disparity between white children
and black children in schools -- especially discipline and grades -- is due to
one thing and one thing only: white racism.
That’s
why the president issued his executive
order called the “White House
Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.”
They
were explicit about the problem and the cause:
African Americans lack equal access to highly effective
teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory
classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline and referrals
to special education.
African-American student achievement not only lags behind
that of their domestic peers by an average of two grade levels, but also behind
students in almost every other developed nation.
Over a third of African American students do not graduate
from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four
percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are
college-ready across a range of subjects.
An even greater number of African-American males do not
graduate with a regular high school diploma, and African American males also
experience disparate rates of incarceration.
For
the better part of the last decade, teams of functionaries from the Departments
of Education and Justice scoured the country, looking for disparities. And when
they found them, they knew they were the result of one thing and one thing
only: white racism.
Every
teacher in America knows that. And they know how futile it is to fight the
federal bully boys with protestations of innocence that do nothing but provide
more evidence of their guilt.
If
Trump wants to rip up Obama executive orders, this is a great place to start.
There’s a lot more:
At the
military academies, students learn white privilege.
At the
EPA, they preach the gospel of environmental racism.
At
public universities, professors gin up phony tests to prove anyone who does not
like racial quotas is a racist.
At the
CIA, director James Brennan told the Wall Street Journal his greatest accomplishment as
our nation’s spymaster was fighting for “more diversity,” despite all the
handicaps he had to overcome as a "white male from New Jersey."
Racial
quotas and affirmative action is an essential part of every cubicle in every
office in every department. Top to bottom.
At the
Department of Labor, every bureaucrat knows that white racism causes black
unemployment. Many still remember the president’s speech at the funeral of the
victims of Dylan Roof in North Carolina, where he talked about racism and
how Johnny gets called back for a job interview, but not Jamal.
Or the
Dallas funeral for the five cops killed by the black person who hated white
people. And how the president reminded his national audience that white racism
is still here. Still causing black people to do all sorts of undesirable things.
And
white people have to fix that. Because black people are not responsible for
their own behavior.
The
president has come a long way from the neophyte state senator who reminded the
country at the Democratic National Convention we are not a black country or a
white country, not residents of red states and blue states, but just one people
in the United States.
With
just a few days left in his term, President Obama confessed he supported
reparations for black people for all the suffering they have endured at the
hand of racist white people, but alas, the country was not ready for it. So we
must leave that for another administration, presumably the Trump people.
Now
the only question is whether Trump and his army are going to be ready to take
the helm of a federal government that has made racial resentment a fundamental
organizing principle of its existence. Part of the DNA of every policy in every
nook and cranny in every federal office.
Or
whether they think this cancer of institutional racial resentment can wait
another day.
Colin Flaherty is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Sellers,
Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry and White Girl Bleed a Lot. You can find him on
Youtube atColin Flaherty YouTube Channel.
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